Electronic Design News

Antenova, the Hatfield antenna specialist, has launched an embedded GNSS antenna, named ‘Sinica’, which operates on the 1559MHz–1609MHz satellite bands.
Sinica is suitable for all positioning applications on the 1559MHz-1609MHz bands, the company says. It operates with all of the public satellite constellations – GPS, GLONASS, Baidou and Gallileo…

Electrical reliability and protection from electrostatic discharge (ESD) has become more important to IC designers as on-chip geometries shrink and device complex increases.
ESD is not a new phenomenon in chip design but its importance to IC designers has increased in recent years.
The main factors for this are…

Educating students of all ages in embedded design continues to be an important part of the activities of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
Its programme of training teachers in embedded design based on Raspberry Pi is continuing apace with the numbers of Raspberry Pi-certified educators growing through its training events…

Embedded software developer Coderus is raising its profile in the wireless IoT market by signing up to the Microchip Design Partner Program as an app developer specialist.
Suffolk-based Coderus sees Microchip as “a supermarket for core modules with which brands can build their products” and this will fit well…

An Epson LCD controller shield board brings support for WQVGA and QVGA TFT displays to the Arduino Due development platform.
Independent distributor Ineltek UK is offering the Arduino shield free when you buy one of its selected TFT displays.
The S5U13781R01C100 TFT shield is based on the Epson S1D13781 controller…

There is a flurry of activity in the various research teams developing technology for the 5G generation of mobile communications around the world .
The trigger seems to be to build know-how in millimetre-wave radio technologies which will operate around 60GHz.
Keysight Technologies is to work with Japan’s…

The UK’s 5G mobile development initiative has received a big boost from a global semiconductor company.
Imagination Technology is joining the UK’s 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) at the University of Surrey which is developing and defining underlying technologies for next-generation 5G mobile communications networks.
Imagination will provide…